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Database table with a single row - bad idea?
I have a "virtual scratchpad" Rails app that has pages (analogous to a piece of scratch paper), and each page has_many :notes (analogous to the notes that you'd write on that paper).
I want to count ...
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my first gem as a newbie rubyist
Good sunny afternoon,
I have made my first gem! Hooraah, it is very simple and fuses httparty gem with ebay xml api to get categories from ebay.
The api keys etc are loaded from ENV variables.
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Refactoring Query Rails 3 Active Record Fetch associated model based on conditions
Here is what I have. A User model and an Address model. User has_many :addresses and Adddress belongs_to :user.
Now I want to search for users whose email contains a give term, or one of the users's ...
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Rails: “somefile.html.erb” -How can I make this code more concise and elegant?
Hi Im letting the users upload an file from the browser into my rails app. using paperclip gem.
Once the file is uploaded it gets saved into the filesystem. When the user then goes in and the "show" ...
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Rails stylistic exception and bang usage
Question whether I should be throwing exceptions in the below model code (and rescuing in the controller - rescues not implemented below) or returning nil (in both or one of the exception cases). ...
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Refactor this Ruby on Rails code
Im wondering how could I refactor this code. It may look a little reiterative and probably there's a shorter method to accomplish the same.
def self.location(distance=100,location)
if ...
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Avoiding nested if statements
I occasionally find myself bumping into code like this (either in other projects or banging out initial prototypes myself):
if @product.save
if current_member.role == "admin"
redirect_to ...
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Rspec Request always break when teammate push some changes, how to improve?
This is my rspec integration test for user , it always break when my teammate change something , how do i improve this?
describe "Users" do
before(:each) do
populate_role
end
describe ...
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Should I create a category table or category field
create_table "announcements", :force => true do |t|
t.string "title"
t.string "category"
t.datetime "created_at", :null => false
t.datetime "updated_at", :null => false
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Refactoring contest: Rails accepts_nested_attributes_for a many-to-many associated model
I found myself struggling when it came to refactor the following (working) code. Since can't be found a lot of documentation about Rails 'accepts_nested_attributes_for' applied to a many-to-many ...
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Controller code with exception handling
I am writing this code in the controller. I want to know is this the right way to write it or not. Because I don't want to write If else conditions and then either redirect or render the pages.
Here ...
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Creating MarkDown documents in ruby
I'm trying to dynamically generate some MarkDown formatted documents, with header fields of arbitrary lengths.
I want to have a title of arbitrary length underlined like this
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refactoring date and time columns convertion to Time(WithZone)
I got 2 colums representing a date and a time.
{dateproc: '2012-03-23', horproc: '2000-01-01 16:15:23 UTC'}
Both are read as a TimeWithZone by rails. I need to combine them.
This is what I've ...
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activerecord, refactoring the source code
I have three tables
class User < AR::Base
has_many :lexemes, :dependent => :destroy
end
class Lexeme < AR::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :word
end
class Word < AR::Base
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Select records and fill hash
I use ruby 1.8.7. I have method wich select records and fill hash. In my opinion the code is not dry. Could somebody help me to refactor it and make it shorter and more elegant?
def fill_attributes()
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